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| sureanem |
Posted on 19-03-24, 18:36 in Monocultures in Linux and browsers (formerly "Windows 10")
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Post: #121 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1544 days Last view: 1542 days |
Sucks, but, if you want to keep running windows get on the fucking train. It's just going to be worse and worse from here on out. In other words, exactly what Win 10 AME is aiming to do? There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
| sureanem |
Posted on 19-03-25, 12:38 in Monocultures in Linux and browsers (formerly "Windows 10")
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Post: #122 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1544 days Last view: 1542 days |
Posted by wertigonYeah, but what are they going to do? Sure, they could send some rude letters, but in the end there's not much you can do to take down a website that hosts content you don't like. Posted by CaptainJistuceAs I see it, this is just a theoretical concern. They can put up a Windows distro that people are able to download, and that's all that counts; the paperwork is irrelevant as long as it stays unrealized. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
| sureanem |
Posted on 19-03-25, 12:55 in Announcing the bsnes history kit
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Stirrer of Shit
Post: #123 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1544 days Last view: 1542 days |
Posted by Screwtape Why do you need an HTML5-compatible parser to parse HTML4? Wait, are you saying that every signature starts with a fixed number of underscores? Yes. Is that when you open bsnes_thread.html in a browser, or are you looking at the bsnes-history repo somewhere? I can't see any "ƒ" anywhere. In the browser. When I copy paste the raw entities into the file and paste them into the first result for "HTML entity decoder," it's normal. So probably just a misdeclared encoding somewhere. Might be good to fix though so the errors don't propagate up the chain. There's been a bunch of things I could have archived over the years and decided not to (things like bass and beat and treble and other assorted tools) because I didn't want to commit to maintaining a full repo like I do for higan. In retrospect, I really wish I'd just saved them all and stuck them in a folder, because even if I didn't get around to making a repo maybe somebody else could have. What about http://black-ship.net/~tukuyomi/snesemu/tools/ ?
If I had to guess, I suspect the oldest surviving changelogs are the byuu.cinnamonpirate.com archives on the Wayback Machine. Luckily, I don't think *those* are going away any time soon, so I don't feel rushed to collect them. Ask byuu to ask them to make their scrapes of byuu.org public or to release them to him privately. Unless they deleted everything after he requested they stop scraping, but I don't think it works that way. The scrapes of cinnamonpirate are kind of spotty, and I think everything that wayback has downloaded or seen from there is also in tukuyomi's collection. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
| sureanem |
Posted on 19-03-25, 15:34 in Monocultures in Linux and browsers (formerly "Windows 10")
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Stirrer of Shit
Post: #124 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1544 days Last view: 1542 days |
I'm not a developer of this project, just an interested third party, so I don't really have a dog in this fight - I just think it's a cool idea to make a fixed version of Windows 10. I get that it's theoretically illegal, and after some further studies it appears some members of the development team are grossly reckless with the personal information, but if they'd use basic technology like Tor or a non-logging VPN they wouldn't be in much danger if any at all. Plenty of other websites have managed to stay online despite controversy - The Pirate Bay, Sci-Hub, Library Genesis, etc. You run a bloody release group and have your legal name on the same page. Presumably, something similar to Popcorn Time would play out: someone sends them a C&D, the less privacy-savvy developers bail, and they start receiving new, anonymous contributions due to the PR they got from it. Of course, it can't be ruled out that some of them would be the old friends under another name. At any rate, the project is now alive and well. As for doing the best about these anonymous guys, no. They advertise the project, so I can only trust them to have been prudent. If not, then whatever happens happens. If one of them were to end up in jail, that'd have been on them. There's no point in developing a project publicly and then attempting to cover it up, and they advertise it themselves so I wouldn't think that's the goal. Hosting guy is probably the only one violating any actual laws, so I suppose it's a race against time: will he manage to dissociate himself from the project before shit hits the fan? There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
| sureanem |
Posted on 19-03-25, 15:47 in Announcing the bsnes history kit
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Stirrer of Shit
Post: #125 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1544 days Last view: 1542 days |
Posted by Screwtape The archive was made from a HTML4 page. Won't Python's built-in parser be good enough for any page that validates as HTML? OK, *where* in the browser, so I can see how it appears for me, and check how my pipeline has handled it. Also, which browser are you using? Line 81645 of bsnes_thread.html. Firefox 60.6.0esr (64-bit) from Debian stable repos (60.6.0esr-1~deb9u1). (Note, the forum doesn't escape the entities like it should, but it does NOT have japanese characters when you open it up in less or similar)
Yeah, fair point. One is none... There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
| sureanem |
Posted on 19-03-26, 00:00 in Monocultures in Linux and browsers (formerly "Windows 10") (revision 1)
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Stirrer of Shit
Post: #126 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1544 days Last view: 1542 days |
The issue remains firmly in the theoretical domain as long as you observe privacy best practices. In reality, there is no issue, only on paper. Alexandra Elbakyan was right. People are too concerned with the theoretical aspects of it all to see what drives the actual change here in the world. While other people were busy negotiating useless deals which have yet to amount to anything, she rolled up her sleeves and did some actual programming work and affected an actual change. If there'd be more people like her there'd be less problems. I have yet to see her serving any jail time for any supposed crimes. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
| sureanem |
Posted on 19-03-26, 01:19 in Monocultures in Linux and browsers (formerly "Windows 10") (revision 1)
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Stirrer of Shit
Post: #127 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1544 days Last view: 1542 days |
Posted by tomman Since when is Germany located in Eastern Europe? If he was anonymous, then how come a quick Google search yields the name "Alexander Egorenkov"? If you're in a position where they could pay off a court, you've already fucked up. Posted by Screwtape No, it's the good old "it's never wrong" defense. I mean, I agree with you. It'd be better to apply this methodology to a project such as ReactOS than to create a half-baked semi-free Windows 10. But the amount of freedom per unit of work is still orders of magnitude higher for this than for most of the other FOSS projects. That it could be even higher in theory doesn't negate this. The The Pirate Bay people didn't do anything wrong either despite being put behind bars. That said, they obviously had a good faith belief that what they were doing was legal (which it was, but their government didn't feel like standing up for them). The situation is somewhat different if you had someone who'd try to pull the same antics in 2019, now that it's common knowledge what happens if you run a torrent website without bothering with privacy. They still wouldn't have had it coming, but obviously they did to some extent bring it upon themselves. By "hosting guy", I mean whoever is responsible for building the ISO files and sharing them. It's A-OK to contribute to their scripts under your real name. The ideal for any project would of course be to have one guy living in Eritrea, Ethiopia, Iran, Iraq, or San Marino as a frontman, and then the rest of the project can be segregated so to not pose any legal issues for the remaining contributors, nor him as he would not be subject to the international copyright law. This is kind of how sci-hub works, and they're almost the exact project you argue should be impossible. Large-scale copyright violation, against a company that's willing to spend almost unlimited resources on pursuing it, large amounts of heat, have been sued for $4,800,000 and lost. Not sure what more could "go wrong". Maybe the author getting doxxed? Nope, public figure. Alive and well, studying somewhere in Kazakhstan. If it's impossible, then how come you can go to https://sci-hub.tw/ and download any scientific paper for free? There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
| sureanem |
Posted on 19-03-26, 02:50 in Monocultures in Linux and browsers (formerly "Windows 10")
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Stirrer of Shit
Post: #128 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1544 days Last view: 1542 days |
Well, that's true, but the possibility of getting caught is only theoretical if one observes privacy best practices. Screwtape said "wrong", which is another thing entirely. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
| sureanem |
Posted on 19-03-26, 03:19 in Monocultures in Linux and browsers (formerly "Windows 10")
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Stirrer of Shit
Post: #129 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1544 days Last view: 1542 days |
Theoretical in the sense of having little to no practical importance. Or if I'm going to be really obnoxious and bring out the dictionary, "existing only in theory." What definition are the rest of you using? There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
| sureanem |
Posted on 19-03-26, 15:43 in Monocultures in Linux and browsers (formerly "Windows 10") (revision 1)
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Stirrer of Shit
Post: #130 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1544 days Last view: 1542 days |
Posted by wertigon Sci-hub is a far higher priority to Elsevier than ROM hacking is to Nintendo. No teenager ever got sued for $4,800,000 million or burned through 10-20 domains. I'd imagine they're throwing whatever resources they can at it. I mean, if you read here, even ordinarily piracy-happy torrentfreak seems to imply that Sci-Hub causes Elsevier huge losses: Would the universities cancel their subscriptions so easily if their researchers couldn’t use Sci-Hub to get free copies? It's not like it's some obscure project nobody has ever heard of. It's ranked 679 on Alexa, with the backup domain at 5636. For comparison, ubuntu.com is at 1880 and thepiratebay.org at 228. What's with the 2% figure? Why wouldn't it survive at 8% or 80%? Your point about backdoors in the ISO is also a theoretical possibility, but it'd be trivial to audit. I would argue the risk is lower than if you were to go to The Pirate Bay and download the first hit for 'Windows {7|8.1|10} ISO'. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
| sureanem |
Posted on 19-03-26, 15:52 in Something about cheese!
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Stirrer of Shit
Post: #131 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1544 days Last view: 1542 days |
Posted by wertigon I hope more websites start doing like the American newspapers and just rangeban Europe. Problem solved, you reap what you sow. On another note, it boggles the mind how the EU manages to come up with a great idea (GDPR, albeit the implementation was somewhat ham-fisted) and then follow up almost instantly with an atrociously poor idea that never should have gotten past the drawing board. Are they schizophrenic? As much as I hate to admit it, there's a grand total of one country in the world with sane copyright laws, and it's China. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
| sureanem |
Posted on 19-03-26, 16:05 in Blackouts
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Stirrer of Shit
Post: #132 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1544 days Last view: 1542 days |
If you don't mind me asking this, what are your thoughts on the Russian aid? Do you want for the power situation to improve, short-term? There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
| sureanem |
Posted on 19-03-26, 16:43 in Computer Technology News/Discussion
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Stirrer of Shit
Post: #133 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1544 days Last view: 1542 days |
What about running a Frankenstein system where you build your own kernel and keep the old versions of MATE and KDE? There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
| sureanem |
Posted on 19-03-26, 21:46 in Computer Technology News/Discussion
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Stirrer of Shit
Post: #134 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1544 days Last view: 1542 days |
No, I mean the opposite. You switch over to Stretch, but make your own... frontports? It should be much less of a maintenance burden, and if you tire of it or it goes to hell upgrading wouldn't be much extra work. As for the HP laptop, depending on how much you need the battery, you could just disable ACPI. For Saki, how about Alpine Linux? It might take some tinkering, but it's not the rolling release bleeding edge Russian roulette of Arch. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
| sureanem |
Posted on 19-03-26, 22:50 in Announcing the bsnes history kit
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Stirrer of Shit
Post: #135 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1544 days Last view: 1542 days |
Posted by Screwtape Bit of a hack, but try uploading via torrent, I think it's be less sensitive that way. If you don't want to expose your IP, make a webseeded torrent that points to black-ship.net. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
| sureanem |
Posted on 19-03-27, 00:36 in Monocultures in Linux and browsers (formerly "Windows 10")
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Stirrer of Shit
Post: #136 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1544 days Last view: 1542 days |
Posted by Screwtape Yup. And Ameliorated is solidly within the realm of "happy amateurs". No security to write home about, but seem to be competent and passionate people. Hopefully they'll start sweating when the C&Ds come in and turn their panic into something productive. I don't see where you get Hosting Solution Ltd. from though. Whois of the IP that the domain points to gives me King-Servers, a Russian hosting company whose owner has been implicated in shady business in the past. That said, taking down a server or domain changes nothing, as long as the project lives on. The only thing that matters is if you're able to bring in the people running it. If they can't, then nothing can be done, and if they can, all the decentralization in the world can't alleviate the issue that nobody is developing it. The Pirate Bay has since the trial been run continually by an anonymous group of people observing security best practices, and it hasn't had any major interruptions except for that one time in 2014. You could argue it's not being targeted, but it clearly was targeted enough to get their domains seized. I can't think of any website that was continually off-line when the owners were determined to continue running it and had the necessary basic skills to keep doing so. The closest I can get would be botnet C&C, but they strictly speaking aren't websites and lack the ability to switch domains. I'm no expert on geopolitics, but I don't think the Kazakh government would launch a manhunt on the behalf of American companies. Sci-hub have already been sued, Elsevier would have to go a step further in actually pressuring the local police into hunting down everyone involved with running it. Maybe I underestimate their reach, but I strongly doubt that even a large media company could pull this off. Certainly, we are heading in the direction where controversial websites will be unable to exist on the clearnet, but we are far off from reaching it. More likely is that the change comes from the other direction, with the phishing blocklist. Before you deem this an insane proposition, consider that it already today in both major browsers is impossible to sideload an add-on that hasn't been signed, and that to obtain this signature in Chrome requires you upload it to the Chrome Web Store, which requires you to follow the Developer Program Policies. So far, Mozilla allows you to get add-ons signed without distributing them through AMO, and in such cases relaxes their policy to "no malware". This could change at any given time, and it's impossible to sideload an addon that hasn't been signed. What prevents Google from blocking all websites that don't follow their terms of service? (Of course, the answer is turtles all the way down - they won't need to, since blocking them from their search engine is plenty enough) Now, Mozilla is not actually doing this yet. But why wouldn't they? As long as they remain the least bad of the two options, they can do whatever they feel like. And increasing "security" as far as they can go is obviously in their best interests financially, since it would decrease their user base if Google were the only ones to do so and Firefox were to develop a reputation as a "dangerous" browser. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
| sureanem |
Posted on 19-03-27, 15:26 in Something about cheese!
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Stirrer of Shit
Post: #137 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1544 days Last view: 1542 days |
Posted by CaptainJistuce Is The Washington Post based in Europe? There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
| sureanem |
Posted on 19-03-27, 16:18 in Computer Technology News/Discussion
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Stirrer of Shit
Post: #138 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1544 days Last view: 1542 days |
Well, for a desktop environment probably, but would it be so much work compiling the kernel with buildroot and all? I can't remember feeling an urge to update my kernel, ever, so it shouldn't have to be done very often. Unless you have bad luck with the security vulnerabilities or introduce new hardware, I don't see why you would have to update at all. If there aren't any security vulnerabilities or critically important features, why even bother updating the system? Also, what's so special about MATE? I'm using XFCE, and I don't see any big differences compared to what I remember of GNOME 2 except for the default panel layout and bundled software, both of which suck but can be trivially fixed. You could probably configure it to look like MATE and install their default applications through the repos if you want. Doesn't i386 software run on i586 CPUs just fine? If so, you could run Debian Extended LTS to mid-2021 and possibly longer. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
| sureanem |
Posted on 19-03-27, 22:10 in Monocultures in Linux and browsers (formerly "Windows 10")
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Stirrer of Shit
Post: #139 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1544 days Last view: 1542 days |
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-Posted by https://www.computerworld.com/article/3293429/with-daas-windows-coming-say-goodbye-to-your-pc-as-you-know-it.html -AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH. You think this won't affect you? Try writing that from your laptop with 32GB non-removable SSD and Windows-only Secure Boot (think "Find my iPhone"). Or maybe you'd like to take a stab at writing it from your desktop computer you built yourself with parts you bought from someone whose main clients are the shrinking pool of PC gamers? Oh well, it's fine. Just keep using old computers and pray the new, proprietary, drivers aren't subarch compiled for whatever comes after AVX-512. And that Mozilla doesn't pull anything stupid. The CIA wants all code in the cloud under their lock and key. They want to ban compilers and make people think HTML is computer programming. They want to evaporate desktops so you have no local computer, just massive cloud computers. Terry Davis was right. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
| sureanem |
Posted on 19-03-27, 22:14 in Something about cheese!
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Stirrer of Shit
Post: #140 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1544 days Last view: 1542 days |
No, but those are generally small and obscure websites who think they can play fast and loose with the GDPR and get away with it. They also happen to be right, but if the EU wished to make an example out of them they could fine them. Do you think Google is being nice? How about Facebook? There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
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